Unavailability of IT Services

In order to carry out vital upgrade work BUCS have scheduled maintenance from 5.10pm on Friday 27th March to 8am on Monday 30th March. During this period, University network services will be unavailable. In preparation for the shutdown, some services might be affected from 4pm onward on 27th March.

This network shutdown will of course affect library services. Although there will be limited borrowing facilities, there will be:

• No loan renewals or holds/reservations can be made over the weekend.
• No access to printing (although the coin operated photocopier will be available).
• No access to the University's website - including Moodle and the library webpages, e-journals and databses. This will effect both on and off-campus users.
• If you would like to borrow a book for the first time, loans can be issued manually.

All users are advised to plan ahead to obtain any library materials or use library services and resources in advance of the weekend shutdown.

Over this engineering weekend, university users will have no access to campus PCs - including those in the Library, labs and e-lounges. Furthermore, the Wireless network will be offline.

BUCS aim to restore normal services as soon as possible once the required upgrades have been completed. Progress may be posted on the BUCS News page.